The essay "The Prevention of Literature" all his modern fans like (the minority who've read his other work), the whole rant that the censorship once practiced by the Church and the aristocrats is now coming from inside the house, from the Left It's a big-standard rant now
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
But moreover it's fucked up that he thought this He was WRONG He wrote this in 1946 and predicted that soon Marxist-Leninist ideology would become dominant among the Western intelligentsia, that you wouldn't be able to say bad things about communism, the USSR or Stalin
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
That the Left as an institution had won, the Right was already dead and didn't know it, and the great danger was now the revolution being betrayed *In 1946* What the FUCK
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
One year before the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten by HUAC and the election of Joe McCarthy to the Senate in 1947, six years before the execution of the Rosenbergs
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
All this stuff that still lay in the future -- Korea, Vietnam, COINTELPRO, the Birchers, the Minutemen, Kent State, Watergate The right wing wasn't even close to dead, the conservatives hadn't even gotten started fighting yet
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
That's a very American perspective, of course, and I'm sure it looked different to Orwell as a British socialist in Atlee's England whose friends were all British socialists and who basically never interacted with Tories except via letters to the editor etc
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Replying to @arthur_affect @fennecfoxguy and
Plus Stalin winning and expanding influence into Germany. I get it, it's just wrong.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @fennecfoxguy and
It was World War II that really messed him up (and, well, that's understandable, it messed up a lot of people) His dislike with fellow leftists really curdled into disgust and hatred after what he saw as the massive backstab of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
The patriotic middle class Englishman inside of him he'd never been able to fully shake off got awakened again, with him getting all gung-ho volunteering for the Home Guard (while his wife literally worked in the Ministry of Truth, in the Censorship Office of the MOI)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Knowing that Churchill was a Tory imperialist piece of shit but feeling his heart go all aflutter at his speeches anyway Giving himself permission to love England again because for once they had an unambiguous devil as their enemy in the form of Hitler All predictable stuff
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It feels a LOT like his disciple Hitchens starting to totally lose his mind after 9/11 Getting all red in the face screaming at his fellow leftists "HOW CAN YOU BOTH-SIDES THE NAZIS/AL-QAEDA?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
"CHURCHILL/BUSH IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN STOP HITLER/BIN LADEN! YOU HAVE TO PICK A SIDE HERE! WE ARE AT WAR FOR OUR SURVIVAL! AND YOU'RE ON THE SIDE OF (ISLAMO)FASCISM!"
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